Event-Driven Contracts in the West Midlands

Event-Driven
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Event-Driven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Event-Driven over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 108 122
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 +46
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 4 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.25% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £603 - £569
25th Percentile £606 £275 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £300 £650
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% -53.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £656 £325 £688
90th Percentile £668 - -
England median daily rate £600 £600 £638
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -8.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Event-Driven falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,423 1,599 1,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.00% 81.25% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 1,075 1,325
10th Percentile £210 £275 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £670 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 84 41
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.15 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.76 £14.00 £15.64
Median hourly rate £23.42 £18.74 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.01% -25.80% +44.29%
75th Percentile £34.16 £37.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £46.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Event-Driven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in the West Midlands

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in the West Midlands

Event-Driven
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Event-Driven within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Coventry -2 2 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £600 - 1
Event-Driven
England

Event-Driven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Collibra
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (50.00%) GIS
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) Flink
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) IoT
1 2 (50.00%) SCADA
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bicep
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Informatica
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys